Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:57:31 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Tuomo Latto <djv@mbnet.fi> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new FreeBSD-webpage Message-ID: <4345658B.3070002@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <43455D3E.5040007@mbnet.fi> References: <b41c75520510060225h2eeecdd8w@mail.gmail.com> <di2s9q$4ss$1@sea.gmane.org> <43455D3E.5040007@mbnet.fi>
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Tuomo Latto wrote: > Alexander S. Usov wrote: > >>>Just pointed firefox to freebsd.org and I was greeted with a new look! > > ... > >>And in general, I have already heard from quite a lot of people today that >>the old design was quite authentic and recognizable, while the new one >>looks as a quite standard portal. > > > Yecch. All ugly and businesslike. This is what you'd expect from > all sorts of companies that are all marketing and no information. > > > You'd expect popups from the links on the top (they look like that > sort of links), but none seem to appear and I've just wasted time > waiting for them to appear. > BTW, I pretty much hate popups because they seldom work > properly and they always seem kind of sluggish. Only thing that's > worse than having to use them is having something that looks like > them but is not. > > > A lot of stuff has been removed from plain sight which means > more clicking and scrolling and searching and waiting. > Oh yes, let's all start burying information.. > > Having some of the information hidden in plain sight is a nice > touch. I mean that release stuff and "shortcuts". > The marketing BS filter behind my eyes blocks most of the content > on the site pretty well as it is but that release stuff and > "shortcuts" seem to have been designed to get filtered out. > It actually requires me conscious effort to read them. > > > With Opera, about 40% of the screen space is left unused. > I *liked* the quick links the old one had on the sides. > > > Have you tried it with lynx? > Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.1 (04 Feb 2004) doesn't seem to handle XML, > so when you're in a pinch with your fw/gw machine that doesn't have > X installed and you quickly need to access eg. some documentation > on the site, you're out of luck. > I tried it with lynx, links, camino, opera, safari, and mozilla. All rendered nicely. It even rendered acceptably on my Treo650. Can't please 100% of the people 100% of the time. Scott
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